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Chicago examiner vol x no 309 a m monday Chicago december 16 1912 monday rlf literal in pricf onf of nt delivered bj carrier trace of lost air craft and two men is found at sea pontoon of missing hydro aeroplane tells mute story j of disaster to aviator and passenger off los angeles craft wrecked on the rocks is theory after twenty four hour search fails to find clew to fate of flyers los angeles dec 15 after twenty four hours of anxious searching on land and sea the first tangible clew as to the fate of hora"oe kearney the aviator and chester lawrence the newspaper man he carried as a passenger was found late this afternoon when boatmen picked up what is believed to be one of the end pontoons of kearney's craft in the ocean five miles southwest of redondo the finding of the pontoon has given support to the theory that kearney's hydro aeroplane was cither wrecked completely or that it was subjected to severe enough buffeting of the waves to tear the pontoon off for one of the steel supports that fastened the pontoon to the lower plane was snapped off the pontoon is about four feet long cigar shaped made of light metal and is airtight the one found and a duplicate of it de pended from the lower plane near each end and served aa balance buoys or sup ports when the hydro-aeroplane was in the rater i aderneat-h the lower plane in the center was another large pontoon which was the main support of the ma chine in llie water launch finds wreckage the pontoon was picked up by tlie gaso line launch smiley this afternoon about five miles southwest of itcdondo beach which is near the southern tip of the cres : mbt_mftped santa monica bay david j clark the owner of the launch and charles pitcher and charles montague werci aboard and sighted the pontoon bobbing up nnd down on tlie waves they pulled it aboard and hurried with it to santa monica where it was taken to the police c h day the builder of kearney's ma chine was communicated with in los angeles and identified the pontoon from â€¢ telephonic description as being kear ney's he left at once for santa monica to make a more complete identihcation according to those who found the pon toon it was floating southward with wind and tide at a rate of about two miles an hour and the theory is that it had floated some distance from the point where it was torn from the plane this supports | the theory that is borne out by other evi dence that kearney after rounding point firmin headed straight across santa mon ica bay in a direct line for point dume about forty miles distant two landed in ocean this course would form a segment of the crescent-shaped santa monica bay and would be variably from five to ten miles off shore it is believed that what ever happened to kearney's machine oc curred in the direction of point dume although in the absence of any definite evidence this is speculative an ex amination of the pontoon found shows that it was violently wrenched from the plane and it furnishes mute evidence that kearney aad his companion must have landed in the ocean those familiar with aviation and with that region believe that the fears of last night are more than corroborated by the finding of the pontoon they believe that it is now praciically certain that kear ney's machine cither had nn accident in the air and plunged into the ocean or that kearney was forced to alight on the wa ter or in the surf and then was wrecked on the rocks little hope is now held out for kearney and lawrence although there is still some chance that they might have gotten ashore from the wreck and are on the wild malibu coast far from habitation or means of communication chester lawrence was the representa tive of the los angeles kxaminer in the disc automobile tho patbfinding car which recently made the transcontinental tri i on the ocean-to-ocean highway move ment i.awreine in the car went from lees angeles to new york kearney and lawrence left east new port shortly nfter 1 o'cl iek yesterday aft ernoon their passage of the bench cities of long beach san redid and itcdondo were gala events thousands thronged the pleasure resorts and cheered wildly as the intrepid aviator maneuvered with his craft british navy aviator and passenger killed seecial cable to the examiner iiostki.w dec 15 aviation to-day claimed two more victims bringing the total nnmbci of deaths from the pursuit of this science up to 217 to-day's vic tims were lieutenant parte r x a wide ly knowu aviator and william ilardwick a passenger whom lie was carrying from hendou to oxford the accident occurred near wembley i wilson and daughters at wheel of steamer president-elect and girls take turns steering ship through the gulf stream sagapo_._!ick x y dec 15 by wireless from the steamship bermudian â€” rresldent-elect woodrow wilson and his daughters took turns to-day steering the bermudian through the gulf stream and all were delighted by the experience cap tain mackenzie remained close at hand however and directed every move of the novices during the brief time they were | at the helm the bermudian is expected to show her i nose abreast of sandy hook at 4 o'clock to-morrow morning the weather is splen did and thc sea calm and if there is no fog to interfere with her coming up the bay in the morning the ship will dock about 10 a m governor wilson's first engagement is at the southern banquet in new york tuesday evening washington dec 15 â€” presideut elect wilson will have an escort of wash ington police headed by superintendent richard sylvester when he goes to staun ton va december 28 to celebrate his natal day at his birthplace staunton has raised a 10,000 fund with which to cele brate the occasion s2.ik.io having been ap propriated by the city council mayor hampton h wayt asked the aid of the washington authorities ln safeguarding the president-elect and major sylvester will take a detail of fifteen men take hatters savings for 340,000 damages homes of 200 union men also to be seized as resu't of danbury fight daxbuky conn dec 15 licus on liank accounts of the 200 union batters against whom 340,000 damages and costs j were adjudged by a jury jh the united states court in the suit brought by the , loewe hat company probably will be filed the latter part of this week it was an nounced to-day the hatters hare been l unable to learn when it is proposed to file ! the liens on their homes but they are con i i fident that these will uot be served until 'â€¢ ! after the supreme court hears their appeal j early next lnoutb i the great majority of those whose homes and life savings may have to be sacrificed are married men with families and the i threatened loss would fall upon them with great severity their hope is that the united hatters of | north america or the american feder i ation of labor will come to their rescue by i raising funds to satisfy the judgments finds copper temper art milwaukee man after 32 years work rediscovers lost method milwaukee dec 15 the lost art of j tempering copper bas been rediscovered in milwaukee r e jack bas been experi menting ever since his older brother when a boy on a farm near watertown wia found an old copper tomahawk which bad been hardened i have been working on this problem for thirty-two years said mr jack and now i have it and will apply for a patent at once * he sharpened a copper rod and with it cut shavings from a piece of hard maple as well as could have been done with the average jackknife maj gen goethals next canal builder to succeed bixby as chief of engineers w-tsaington dec 10.-the senate military committee is expected at its next meeting to report favorably on the propo sition that colonel goethals the builder of the panama canal shall have the rank of major general and also that of chief of engineers the present chief of engineers is general w h bixby who will retire not later than december 1913 colonel w c gorgas of the army medical corps and civil engineer 11 11 rousseau of the navy who have heen associated with colo nel goethals will also be rewarded loses two appendices patient in scranton p hospital astonishes surgeons first case scraxtox pa dec 15.-two appen dices were removed from r a spaugen berg of this city who now is recovering at his home the case is said to be un precedented at the uuhneiuauu hospital spangenberg was operated ou for acute appendicitis when the incision for the first appendix had been made and as the surgeons were about to remove it they discovered the second about three-quarters of an inch from the first only woman sheriff wed secret marriage last august is re vealed at pontiac pontiac 111 dec 13 announcement of the marriage of miss irma hill of this city ouly woman deputy sherilt in Illinois to a r vogel of kanxas city mo at pe oria august 31 last was mude public here i to-day . ____ pastor becomes sleuth to expose farm roadhouse rev m p boynton charges young girls drink in sup posed restaurant ! demands it be closed i calls cafe where witness in ella gingles case died house of death convivial persons deposited by autos at â€¢ the farm saloon is.'jo jackson rark ave nue a week ago last saturday did not know that their conversation was proving highly instructive if not edifying to a minister of the gospel but it was i the interested auditor in the shelter of | one of the booths was the rev m p j boynton of the lexington avenue baptist , church he wanted to know at first handj | what sort of a place the farm was be ] fore be asked the mayor to revoke its i license in his sermon yesterday dr i boynton revealed in detail what he had discovered in spite of the sign farm products restaurant he said those inside were i surprised and pained when his party or , dered a fried chicken instead ef liquor the chicken was forty minutes coming i iu the meantime dr boynton told his congregation while you patiently wait : for that rare bird a full dozen of other i people have come and gone middle-aged men with young girls young men with younger girls the women are nearly all girls the ages of the men may range far but the average for the girls is about sixteen to nineteen years girls drink liquor none of these have ordered chicken they have all drunk of some sort of liquors cand with noise and shuffle have gone their j way while you are still wondering where that chicken is oh those farm products i your heart is saddened thft so many ! j youths are coming and going from this ] i lonesome house on the prairie whose chil 1 , dren are these why do these fresh-faced i boys and well-favored girls come her i there arc no flowers there is no real i music not a hint of entertainment it is all so cheap and sodden the very place speaks exploitation look there comes a gray haired man another man and woman are with him he tries to be gay he dances a few steps they are seated in one of the stalls they order liquor and begin to sip a black-robed woman moves slowly toward that stall and sits with hem she ls very angry about something yes that's it she is under arrest what for it seems that just two nights before a young man of twenty and a girl of seventeen visited there and stayed until after 1 o'clock the boy is in the county jail under heavy bonds gravely accused the heroic father of the girl knowing he has respon sibility for the protection of other girls as well as his own has had this black robed woman arrested for selling liquor to minors and now let every father and mother in Chicago listen while this human spider speaks this is what she said and i wiil speak with as great care as though i were rn court under oath these reformers make laws that hold us responsible for the ages of the girls that come in here i wish we had a law holding the men responsible for the ages of the girls they bring to a place like this but i say if they get in here let them suf fer let them suffer calls it house of death i have called this place the house of death on the prairie not to find a striking theme nor to use lurid rhetoric it was there that mrs celia kenyon of gingles case fame was found dead in the summer of 1909 this death was widely and fully reported it removed an important wit ness in the ella gingles case and though a wide stir was made the management 1 am told is the same as in 1909 and the license was promptly renewed each year i late friday dr boy n tou filed with the j mayor a petition containing the names of 150 voters and asking the revocation of i the license of mrs j b scholl said to be the owner of the saloon the petition i charges that she sold liquor to minors oliver t calaway and ruth mcneilly i the rev w a frye of the woodlawn m e t.uureh nnd the rev edward ht curtis of the woodlawn park presby terian church also preached against the saloon yesterday and started petitions in their congregations helen gould will wed won by railroad man met on y m c a tour miss helen miller gould this photograph of miss gould was taken in Chicago last october on her return from a tour of inspection of the gould lines and their y f c a branches on this trip mr shepard accompanied the party and his attentions to miss gould were marked messenger robs self of 20,145 confession clears mystery of express car holdup helped by brother bakersfield cal dee 15 after several hours cross-examination by sheriff baker and santa fe and wells-fargo de tectives marvin tv hamby the wells fargo express messenger who was sup posed to have been held up while on his run to the west side oil fields last mon day night confessed to the robbery of 0,140 from the express ear and named his sixteen-year-old brother mclvin w hamby as his accomplice the story of having been knocked uncon scious and bound by bandits which he told earlier in the week was merely a blind to cover up his own part in the theft the money has all been recovered by the express company the money was taken from the safe when the train was pulling out of this city and was thrown from the train in two sacks just after leaving kern junction melrin hamby the messenger's brother immedi ately seized it and buried it about 500 yards from the track and half a mile from a chicken ranch where he is employed the principal part of hamby's confession is ns follows - when i got the money monday night i put it in the strong box but as soon as i had left kern city i took it out when i saw the lantern i knew that it would be all right and i tossed the two sacks out of the car and as close to the spot which we had decided upon as i could when i got close to Taft i tied my bands to gether in front of me and put my legs through the circled arms bringing my tied hands up behind me as i was doing this the train lurched and threw me against the trunk it cut my head and i decided to make it a part of my story assigning the bruise as being done by robber i z engagement to finley j shep ard secret of 6 months an nounced at family party new york dee 15 mr and mrs george j gould announce the engagement of their sister miss helen gould to fin ley 3 shepard of st louis this brief announcement made by george j gould to-night at georgian court his lakewood n j home gave the first intimation of the coming marriage of the eldest daughter of the late jay gould who by her numerous acts of philanthropy has endeared herself to thousands ' for more than lis months miss gould has been engaged to finley j shepard assist ant to the president of the missouri pa cific-iron mountain and the denver & rio grande railroads yet cupid's secret was maintained until at ti betrothal feast to night at georgian court the romance was revealed scant information was ventured at lake wood as to the plans for the marriage the ouly word was that it would occur late in january miss gould who with her fiance was at georgian court accept ing a shower of warm congratulations offered no hint of the exact day for the wedding if indeed she had decided upon it romance of y m c a it was through her work ln the y m c a in the pursuit of which she estab lished branches on the gould railroads throughout the country that miss gould and mr shepard met in june 1911 mr shepard at that time was in the operating department of the missouri pacific-iron mountain road miss gould was on her way inspecting the gould railroad system and looking into the y m c a work mr shepard was introduced to miss clonic when he stepped aboard the gould private car george j gould who nad heard of mr shepard as one of the con spicuous climbers in the western railroad service formed a distinctly favorable im pression of him on that same trip the trip took miss gould as far west as den ver and by the time she had turned back ambassador reid dies at post of duty in england hammond for successor american and editor succumbs with wife and daughter at his bedside while son is crossing sea cold caught while entertain ing the connaughts on their visit to america is blamed for envoy's fatal illness john hays hammond the millionaire mining engineer is said to be slated for place at court of st james special cable to the examiner london dec 15 â€” whitelaw reid american ambassador to the court of st james died at dorchester house his palatial london home at ten minutes after noon to-day only his wife and daugh ter the honorable mrs john hubert ward were at the bedside when the end came his son ogden mills reid sailed from new york yesterday on the kronprinzessin cecilie the am bassador's family not realizing the seriousness of mr reid's condition un til friday when they cabled ogden to sail immediately for england contrary to many reports the am bassador did not take to his bed un til friday night when for the first time he consented to turn over all official correspondence to irwin laughlin first secretary of the em bassy until that time the ambas sador believed himself suffering merely from the effects of the cold which he caught november 1 when he addressed the students of the rniverslty college of wales at aberystwyth on the subject of thomas jefferson long a sufferer from asthma as late as friday the ambassador sent a large number of dispatches to the state department at washington which he dictated himself and signed during the i night he fell into a stupor from which he did not rally except at intervals he was unconscious practically ali of saturday and saturday night although every aid known to medical science was applied there was a slight rally early this morning but the patient soon sunk into unconscious ness from which he did not again rally ambassador reid's breakdown dates from his trip to new york last winter to entertain the duke and duchess of connaugbt who came from ottawa to be the ambassador's guests at his town house in new york he had been a sufferer from asthma for many years and it bad been hia habit every winter to spend several weeks in the south of france where he seemed to find relief from the harassing ailment gave up trip to southern france last winter however in order to enter tain the duke and duchess of connaught and their daughter the princess patricia he abandoned his trip to france and sailed for new york his social duties there fatigued him greatly and when he left new york on the return trip last febru ary his nerves were in a serious condition on the way over he caught a severe cold the effect of which in his overwrought nervous state he was unable to shake off the death of an ambassador at his post i is an unusual occurrence for london and it is quite probable that a state funeral will be given him here in westminster abbey king george and the members of the royal family with the entire diplo matic corps and the peace delegates from the balkan states and turkey who are now lust gathering for their monmentous conference probably will attend king george has inquired daily as to the ambassador's condition since the fact that he was seriously ill became known the hon john ward who was at dor chester house telephoned buckingham rulers messages on death of reid j ; tj ashixgtox dec 15 the \ ("" message of king george c i v to president Taft announcing ? ? the death of ambassador whitelaw ? > reid follows : \ king george to Taft \ ? london dec 15 1912 > s the president of the u s a \ \ washington j s it is with the deepest sorrow c ( that \, have to inform you of i } the death of whitelaw reid at > ; noan to-dny as your ambas j ) sador in this country his loss \ will be sincerely deplored c ( while personally i shall mourn i ) for an old friend of many > \ years standing for whom i had ) > the greatest regard and re < s spect the queen and i sym c ( pathize fost warmly with mrs ? ? whitelaw raid in her heavy > ; sorrow i george r i . Taft to king george \ \ tit am president Taft sent < > the following i washington dec 15 1912 5 his majesty king george v / ) buckingham palace lor ( \ don > < your majesty's sal news of ? lhe death of mr whitelaw s > reid has just reached me mr \ i reid's death is a loss to both \ < countries for his service as \ c ambassador was exception 5 ) al in the close 1 friendship s .) tliat he secured between then < |> through his own personality |< his intimats knovviedj of i both countries his profound Â£ ? respect and love fo england ; entirely consistent with the j s highest loyalty on his part to < < this country gave him pecul ? < iar influence for good in his ; i great station i sincerely \ ; thank your majesty for your i i message and your expressions t s of sympathy and respect / < william h Taft | Taft to mrs reid i to mrs reid president Taft dis > ) patched a cable which saysf i washington dec 15 1912 > ? mrs whitelaw reid london \ > mrs Taft and 1 extend to t ) you our deepest sympathy in \ 5 your great sorrow the coun { ) try has lost a most able and j s loyal public servant mr reid's > j death ends one of the most > \ notable of the careers of the / great men who have repre i ) sented this nation in london i s he has exercised a personal Â» < influence that was exceptional > i in maintaining the close ( / friendship of the two countries i > and he has been successful in i s a remarkable degree in the j j two very heavy branches of > ' his duty â€” the one of pure di \ ) plomacy and the other offering i . to the thousands of americans i ) who have frequented london c > during his incumbency a i } friendly hospitality that made ) j all of them feel at home w s | hope that the thought of the s , < great name he leaves will in ( j time mitigate your grief william h Taft palace immediately after the death oc curred and within half an hour sir john legge the queen's equerry called to con vey the condolences of the king and queen other members of the royal fam ily including the dowager queen alexan dra and the princess victoria sent dis patches bearing their condolences to mrs bulletins announcing the death of the ambassador were posted at all the promi nent hotels in london early in the after noon the sunday observer owned by waldorf astor issued a special edition containing the news of the death and the papers wef'e eagerly bought in all parts of the city mrs reid is to-night prostrated from grief and the strain due to worry over the serious condition of ber husband owing to her admittedly serious condi tion and the absence of the son ogden mills reid no arrangements have as yet been made regarding the funeral but tha body will of course be taken to america after the public funeral here ' within half an hour j ter the death wfe / ________ continued on 4th page 3d column \ jjf.wl the assoc:ation of american adver t iu tisers has examined and certified to the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained n the association's report only are guaranteed ntteciation cf american advertisers ho 300 whitehall bld t ., n y city important notice to the contestants of the Chicago examiner 12,000 popularity contest remember to-night at 10 p.m contest closes bring in your subscriptions early yoiiwill be well repaid for your time if you read the want ads in the ex aminer every day try it and see tuesday not mu-.h change 1 f'q â– in temperature light vari "* z^^ar 1 able winds ' eange of temperatures yester s____t cf?v day . \ ls^s mo Â»Â« highest 44 lowest 37 > t^-w average 40 |_______ e____^___zz

Chicago examiner vol x no 309 a m monday Chicago december 16 1912 monday rlf literal in pricf onf of nt delivered bj carrier trace of lost air craft and two men is found at sea pontoon of missing hydro aeroplane tells mute story j of disaster to aviator and passenger off los angeles craft wrecked on the rocks is theory after twenty four hour search fails to find clew to fate of flyers los angeles dec 15 after twenty four hours of anxious searching on land and sea the first tangible clew as to the fate of hora"oe kearney the aviator and chester lawrence the newspaper man he carried as a passenger was found late this afternoon when boatmen picked up what is believed to be one of the end pontoons of kearney's craft in the ocean five miles southwest of redondo the finding of the pontoon has given support to the theory that kearney's hydro aeroplane was cither wrecked completely or that it was subjected to severe enough buffeting of the waves to tear the pontoon off for one of the steel supports that fastened the pontoon to the lower plane was snapped off the pontoon is about four feet long cigar shaped made of light metal and is airtight the one found and a duplicate of it de pended from the lower plane near each end and served aa balance buoys or sup ports when the hydro-aeroplane was in the rater i aderneat-h the lower plane in the center was another large pontoon which was the main support of the ma chine in llie water launch finds wreckage the pontoon was picked up by tlie gaso line launch smiley this afternoon about five miles southwest of itcdondo beach which is near the southern tip of the cres : mbt_mftped santa monica bay david j clark the owner of the launch and charles pitcher and charles montague werci aboard and sighted the pontoon bobbing up nnd down on tlie waves they pulled it aboard and hurried with it to santa monica where it was taken to the police c h day the builder of kearney's ma chine was communicated with in los angeles and identified the pontoon from â€¢ telephonic description as being kear ney's he left at once for santa monica to make a more complete identihcation according to those who found the pon toon it was floating southward with wind and tide at a rate of about two miles an hour and the theory is that it had floated some distance from the point where it was torn from the plane this supports | the theory that is borne out by other evi dence that kearney after rounding point firmin headed straight across santa mon ica bay in a direct line for point dume about forty miles distant two landed in ocean this course would form a segment of the crescent-shaped santa monica bay and would be variably from five to ten miles off shore it is believed that what ever happened to kearney's machine oc curred in the direction of point dume although in the absence of any definite evidence this is speculative an ex amination of the pontoon found shows that it was violently wrenched from the plane and it furnishes mute evidence that kearney aad his companion must have landed in the ocean those familiar with aviation and with that region believe that the fears of last night are more than corroborated by the finding of the pontoon they believe that it is now praciically certain that kear ney's machine cither had nn accident in the air and plunged into the ocean or that kearney was forced to alight on the wa ter or in the surf and then was wrecked on the rocks little hope is now held out for kearney and lawrence although there is still some chance that they might have gotten ashore from the wreck and are on the wild malibu coast far from habitation or means of communication chester lawrence was the representa tive of the los angeles kxaminer in the disc automobile tho patbfinding car which recently made the transcontinental tri i on the ocean-to-ocean highway move ment i.awreine in the car went from lees angeles to new york kearney and lawrence left east new port shortly nfter 1 o'cl iek yesterday aft ernoon their passage of the bench cities of long beach san redid and itcdondo were gala events thousands thronged the pleasure resorts and cheered wildly as the intrepid aviator maneuvered with his craft british navy aviator and passenger killed seecial cable to the examiner iiostki.w dec 15 aviation to-day claimed two more victims bringing the total nnmbci of deaths from the pursuit of this science up to 217 to-day's vic tims were lieutenant parte r x a wide ly knowu aviator and william ilardwick a passenger whom lie was carrying from hendou to oxford the accident occurred near wembley i wilson and daughters at wheel of steamer president-elect and girls take turns steering ship through the gulf stream sagapo_._!ick x y dec 15 by wireless from the steamship bermudian â€” rresldent-elect woodrow wilson and his daughters took turns to-day steering the bermudian through the gulf stream and all were delighted by the experience cap tain mackenzie remained close at hand however and directed every move of the novices during the brief time they were | at the helm the bermudian is expected to show her i nose abreast of sandy hook at 4 o'clock to-morrow morning the weather is splen did and thc sea calm and if there is no fog to interfere with her coming up the bay in the morning the ship will dock about 10 a m governor wilson's first engagement is at the southern banquet in new york tuesday evening washington dec 15 â€” presideut elect wilson will have an escort of wash ington police headed by superintendent richard sylvester when he goes to staun ton va december 28 to celebrate his natal day at his birthplace staunton has raised a 10,000 fund with which to cele brate the occasion s2.ik.io having been ap propriated by the city council mayor hampton h wayt asked the aid of the washington authorities ln safeguarding the president-elect and major sylvester will take a detail of fifteen men take hatters savings for 340,000 damages homes of 200 union men also to be seized as resu't of danbury fight daxbuky conn dec 15 licus on liank accounts of the 200 union batters against whom 340,000 damages and costs j were adjudged by a jury jh the united states court in the suit brought by the , loewe hat company probably will be filed the latter part of this week it was an nounced to-day the hatters hare been l unable to learn when it is proposed to file ! the liens on their homes but they are con i i fident that these will uot be served until 'â€¢ ! after the supreme court hears their appeal j early next lnoutb i the great majority of those whose homes and life savings may have to be sacrificed are married men with families and the i threatened loss would fall upon them with great severity their hope is that the united hatters of | north america or the american feder i ation of labor will come to their rescue by i raising funds to satisfy the judgments finds copper temper art milwaukee man after 32 years work rediscovers lost method milwaukee dec 15 the lost art of j tempering copper bas been rediscovered in milwaukee r e jack bas been experi menting ever since his older brother when a boy on a farm near watertown wia found an old copper tomahawk which bad been hardened i have been working on this problem for thirty-two years said mr jack and now i have it and will apply for a patent at once * he sharpened a copper rod and with it cut shavings from a piece of hard maple as well as could have been done with the average jackknife maj gen goethals next canal builder to succeed bixby as chief of engineers w-tsaington dec 10.-the senate military committee is expected at its next meeting to report favorably on the propo sition that colonel goethals the builder of the panama canal shall have the rank of major general and also that of chief of engineers the present chief of engineers is general w h bixby who will retire not later than december 1913 colonel w c gorgas of the army medical corps and civil engineer 11 11 rousseau of the navy who have heen associated with colo nel goethals will also be rewarded loses two appendices patient in scranton p hospital astonishes surgeons first case scraxtox pa dec 15.-two appen dices were removed from r a spaugen berg of this city who now is recovering at his home the case is said to be un precedented at the uuhneiuauu hospital spangenberg was operated ou for acute appendicitis when the incision for the first appendix had been made and as the surgeons were about to remove it they discovered the second about three-quarters of an inch from the first only woman sheriff wed secret marriage last august is re vealed at pontiac pontiac 111 dec 13 announcement of the marriage of miss irma hill of this city ouly woman deputy sherilt in Illinois to a r vogel of kanxas city mo at pe oria august 31 last was mude public here i to-day . ____ pastor becomes sleuth to expose farm roadhouse rev m p boynton charges young girls drink in sup posed restaurant ! demands it be closed i calls cafe where witness in ella gingles case died house of death convivial persons deposited by autos at â€¢ the farm saloon is.'jo jackson rark ave nue a week ago last saturday did not know that their conversation was proving highly instructive if not edifying to a minister of the gospel but it was i the interested auditor in the shelter of | one of the booths was the rev m p j boynton of the lexington avenue baptist , church he wanted to know at first handj | what sort of a place the farm was be ] fore be asked the mayor to revoke its i license in his sermon yesterday dr i boynton revealed in detail what he had discovered in spite of the sign farm products restaurant he said those inside were i surprised and pained when his party or , dered a fried chicken instead ef liquor the chicken was forty minutes coming i iu the meantime dr boynton told his congregation while you patiently wait : for that rare bird a full dozen of other i people have come and gone middle-aged men with young girls young men with younger girls the women are nearly all girls the ages of the men may range far but the average for the girls is about sixteen to nineteen years girls drink liquor none of these have ordered chicken they have all drunk of some sort of liquors cand with noise and shuffle have gone their j way while you are still wondering where that chicken is oh those farm products i your heart is saddened thft so many ! j youths are coming and going from this ] i lonesome house on the prairie whose chil 1 , dren are these why do these fresh-faced i boys and well-favored girls come her i there arc no flowers there is no real i music not a hint of entertainment it is all so cheap and sodden the very place speaks exploitation look there comes a gray haired man another man and woman are with him he tries to be gay he dances a few steps they are seated in one of the stalls they order liquor and begin to sip a black-robed woman moves slowly toward that stall and sits with hem she ls very angry about something yes that's it she is under arrest what for it seems that just two nights before a young man of twenty and a girl of seventeen visited there and stayed until after 1 o'clock the boy is in the county jail under heavy bonds gravely accused the heroic father of the girl knowing he has respon sibility for the protection of other girls as well as his own has had this black robed woman arrested for selling liquor to minors and now let every father and mother in Chicago listen while this human spider speaks this is what she said and i wiil speak with as great care as though i were rn court under oath these reformers make laws that hold us responsible for the ages of the girls that come in here i wish we had a law holding the men responsible for the ages of the girls they bring to a place like this but i say if they get in here let them suf fer let them suffer calls it house of death i have called this place the house of death on the prairie not to find a striking theme nor to use lurid rhetoric it was there that mrs celia kenyon of gingles case fame was found dead in the summer of 1909 this death was widely and fully reported it removed an important wit ness in the ella gingles case and though a wide stir was made the management 1 am told is the same as in 1909 and the license was promptly renewed each year i late friday dr boy n tou filed with the j mayor a petition containing the names of 150 voters and asking the revocation of i the license of mrs j b scholl said to be the owner of the saloon the petition i charges that she sold liquor to minors oliver t calaway and ruth mcneilly i the rev w a frye of the woodlawn m e t.uureh nnd the rev edward ht curtis of the woodlawn park presby terian church also preached against the saloon yesterday and started petitions in their congregations helen gould will wed won by railroad man met on y m c a tour miss helen miller gould this photograph of miss gould was taken in Chicago last october on her return from a tour of inspection of the gould lines and their y f c a branches on this trip mr shepard accompanied the party and his attentions to miss gould were marked messenger robs self of 20,145 confession clears mystery of express car holdup helped by brother bakersfield cal dee 15 after several hours cross-examination by sheriff baker and santa fe and wells-fargo de tectives marvin tv hamby the wells fargo express messenger who was sup posed to have been held up while on his run to the west side oil fields last mon day night confessed to the robbery of 0,140 from the express ear and named his sixteen-year-old brother mclvin w hamby as his accomplice the story of having been knocked uncon scious and bound by bandits which he told earlier in the week was merely a blind to cover up his own part in the theft the money has all been recovered by the express company the money was taken from the safe when the train was pulling out of this city and was thrown from the train in two sacks just after leaving kern junction melrin hamby the messenger's brother immedi ately seized it and buried it about 500 yards from the track and half a mile from a chicken ranch where he is employed the principal part of hamby's confession is ns follows - when i got the money monday night i put it in the strong box but as soon as i had left kern city i took it out when i saw the lantern i knew that it would be all right and i tossed the two sacks out of the car and as close to the spot which we had decided upon as i could when i got close to Taft i tied my bands to gether in front of me and put my legs through the circled arms bringing my tied hands up behind me as i was doing this the train lurched and threw me against the trunk it cut my head and i decided to make it a part of my story assigning the bruise as being done by robber i z engagement to finley j shep ard secret of 6 months an nounced at family party new york dee 15 mr and mrs george j gould announce the engagement of their sister miss helen gould to fin ley 3 shepard of st louis this brief announcement made by george j gould to-night at georgian court his lakewood n j home gave the first intimation of the coming marriage of the eldest daughter of the late jay gould who by her numerous acts of philanthropy has endeared herself to thousands ' for more than lis months miss gould has been engaged to finley j shepard assist ant to the president of the missouri pa cific-iron mountain and the denver & rio grande railroads yet cupid's secret was maintained until at ti betrothal feast to night at georgian court the romance was revealed scant information was ventured at lake wood as to the plans for the marriage the ouly word was that it would occur late in january miss gould who with her fiance was at georgian court accept ing a shower of warm congratulations offered no hint of the exact day for the wedding if indeed she had decided upon it romance of y m c a it was through her work ln the y m c a in the pursuit of which she estab lished branches on the gould railroads throughout the country that miss gould and mr shepard met in june 1911 mr shepard at that time was in the operating department of the missouri pacific-iron mountain road miss gould was on her way inspecting the gould railroad system and looking into the y m c a work mr shepard was introduced to miss clonic when he stepped aboard the gould private car george j gould who nad heard of mr shepard as one of the con spicuous climbers in the western railroad service formed a distinctly favorable im pression of him on that same trip the trip took miss gould as far west as den ver and by the time she had turned back ambassador reid dies at post of duty in england hammond for successor american and editor succumbs with wife and daughter at his bedside while son is crossing sea cold caught while entertain ing the connaughts on their visit to america is blamed for envoy's fatal illness john hays hammond the millionaire mining engineer is said to be slated for place at court of st james special cable to the examiner london dec 15 â€” whitelaw reid american ambassador to the court of st james died at dorchester house his palatial london home at ten minutes after noon to-day only his wife and daugh ter the honorable mrs john hubert ward were at the bedside when the end came his son ogden mills reid sailed from new york yesterday on the kronprinzessin cecilie the am bassador's family not realizing the seriousness of mr reid's condition un til friday when they cabled ogden to sail immediately for england contrary to many reports the am bassador did not take to his bed un til friday night when for the first time he consented to turn over all official correspondence to irwin laughlin first secretary of the em bassy until that time the ambas sador believed himself suffering merely from the effects of the cold which he caught november 1 when he addressed the students of the rniverslty college of wales at aberystwyth on the subject of thomas jefferson long a sufferer from asthma as late as friday the ambassador sent a large number of dispatches to the state department at washington which he dictated himself and signed during the i night he fell into a stupor from which he did not rally except at intervals he was unconscious practically ali of saturday and saturday night although every aid known to medical science was applied there was a slight rally early this morning but the patient soon sunk into unconscious ness from which he did not again rally ambassador reid's breakdown dates from his trip to new york last winter to entertain the duke and duchess of connaugbt who came from ottawa to be the ambassador's guests at his town house in new york he had been a sufferer from asthma for many years and it bad been hia habit every winter to spend several weeks in the south of france where he seemed to find relief from the harassing ailment gave up trip to southern france last winter however in order to enter tain the duke and duchess of connaught and their daughter the princess patricia he abandoned his trip to france and sailed for new york his social duties there fatigued him greatly and when he left new york on the return trip last febru ary his nerves were in a serious condition on the way over he caught a severe cold the effect of which in his overwrought nervous state he was unable to shake off the death of an ambassador at his post i is an unusual occurrence for london and it is quite probable that a state funeral will be given him here in westminster abbey king george and the members of the royal family with the entire diplo matic corps and the peace delegates from the balkan states and turkey who are now lust gathering for their monmentous conference probably will attend king george has inquired daily as to the ambassador's condition since the fact that he was seriously ill became known the hon john ward who was at dor chester house telephoned buckingham rulers messages on death of reid j ; tj ashixgtox dec 15 the \ ("" message of king george c i v to president Taft announcing ? ? the death of ambassador whitelaw ? > reid follows : \ king george to Taft \ ? london dec 15 1912 > s the president of the u s a \ \ washington j s it is with the deepest sorrow c ( that \, have to inform you of i } the death of whitelaw reid at > ; noan to-dny as your ambas j ) sador in this country his loss \ will be sincerely deplored c ( while personally i shall mourn i ) for an old friend of many > \ years standing for whom i had ) > the greatest regard and re < s spect the queen and i sym c ( pathize fost warmly with mrs ? ? whitelaw raid in her heavy > ; sorrow i george r i . Taft to king george \ \ tit am president Taft sent < > the following i washington dec 15 1912 5 his majesty king george v / ) buckingham palace lor ( \ don > < your majesty's sal news of ? lhe death of mr whitelaw s > reid has just reached me mr \ i reid's death is a loss to both \ < countries for his service as \ c ambassador was exception 5 ) al in the close 1 friendship s .) tliat he secured between then < |> through his own personality |< his intimats knovviedj of i both countries his profound Â£ ? respect and love fo england ; entirely consistent with the j s highest loyalty on his part to < < this country gave him pecul ? < iar influence for good in his ; i great station i sincerely \ ; thank your majesty for your i i message and your expressions t s of sympathy and respect / < william h Taft | Taft to mrs reid i to mrs reid president Taft dis > ) patched a cable which saysf i washington dec 15 1912 > ? mrs whitelaw reid london \ > mrs Taft and 1 extend to t ) you our deepest sympathy in \ 5 your great sorrow the coun { ) try has lost a most able and j s loyal public servant mr reid's > j death ends one of the most > \ notable of the careers of the / great men who have repre i ) sented this nation in london i s he has exercised a personal Â» < influence that was exceptional > i in maintaining the close ( / friendship of the two countries i > and he has been successful in i s a remarkable degree in the j j two very heavy branches of > ' his duty â€” the one of pure di \ ) plomacy and the other offering i . to the thousands of americans i ) who have frequented london c > during his incumbency a i } friendly hospitality that made ) j all of them feel at home w s | hope that the thought of the s , < great name he leaves will in ( j time mitigate your grief william h Taft palace immediately after the death oc curred and within half an hour sir john legge the queen's equerry called to con vey the condolences of the king and queen other members of the royal fam ily including the dowager queen alexan dra and the princess victoria sent dis patches bearing their condolences to mrs bulletins announcing the death of the ambassador were posted at all the promi nent hotels in london early in the after noon the sunday observer owned by waldorf astor issued a special edition containing the news of the death and the papers wef'e eagerly bought in all parts of the city mrs reid is to-night prostrated from grief and the strain due to worry over the serious condition of ber husband owing to her admittedly serious condi tion and the absence of the son ogden mills reid no arrangements have as yet been made regarding the funeral but tha body will of course be taken to america after the public funeral here ' within half an hour j ter the death wfe / ________ continued on 4th page 3d column \ jjf.wl the assoc:ation of american adver t iu tisers has examined and certified to the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained n the association's report only are guaranteed ntteciation cf american advertisers ho 300 whitehall bld t ., n y city important notice to the contestants of the Chicago examiner 12,000 popularity contest remember to-night at 10 p.m contest closes bring in your subscriptions early yoiiwill be well repaid for your time if you read the want ads in the ex aminer every day try it and see tuesday not mu-.h change 1 f'q â– in temperature light vari "* z^^ar 1 able winds ' eange of temperatures yester s____t cf?v day . \ ls^s mo Â»Â« highest 44 lowest 37 > t^-w average 40 |_______ e____^___zz